On 09/20/2016 08:24 AM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
> There are no tools that ship with macOS or Windows (out of the box) that can decode it
That's OK and there's precedent for it, as the tz project used gzip
format before macOS or Microsoft Windows shipped out-of-the-box with
decoding tools. And back then, many other operating systems (SunOS,
etc.) didn't ship out-of-the-box with gzip either. It was not a big
deal. People who didn't have gzip could easily obtain and use its
freely-available source code, just as they can with lzip now. This sort
of thing is not beyond the capability of our target audience.
> Adopting lzip as the primary format at this point
That hasn't happened, as the primary format is still gzip. The lzip
format is experimental.